iPhone photography has come long way since the inception of the App store.Today I am going to share with you some amazing iPhone Apps that I find extremely useful over the years especially for landscape photography.
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You can’t take good street photos if you have that psychological barrier with your subjects. Most people starting street photography will face this barrier and it needs conscious effort to break it. Most beginners in street photography will feel shy and afraid of rejection when approaching strangers on the street. However, this fear can be overcome. One of the ways is to follow someone who has the experience of shooting street...
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Kids will be kids. Nothing that nature throws on them will deter them from having fun. Here were two kids having fun in the rain at the Cebu Wet Market. Getting two or more human subjects in the picture enhances the image. It rewards the viewer with more subjects to view and their interaction with each other. In order to capture the effects of the rain, it is best to have the subject side lighted and lower the shutter speed to around 1/30...
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During the last PMPE in Cebu, Steven Choong lent me his fisheye lens. It was a real challenge on how to effectively use it. It is not one of the easiest lenses to use. Due to its ultra wide and fisheye distortion, it is very easy to shoot a lot of nothing. I have seen a lot of photos posted here and realised that not many people know how to use this fisheye and ultra wide lens characteristics effectively. I shot the whole morning with this lens...
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Cartier Breeson coined the term “decisive moment”. There is always a moment where all the elements come together. “Photography is not like painting,” Cartier-Bresson told the Washington Post in 1957. “There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is...
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Differential focusing is sometimes used to tell a story. Here the blurred foreground showing a woman market trader and a sharp subject caused by a large aperture gives the impression of an adult presence. Those kids are not allowed to play without adult supervision. This protective behaviour is an inborn instinct. This shot was also a reminiscence of my own childhood, where we as kids we loved to play in the rain. The kids in our village...
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